Since both fractions have the same denominator, to find the greater one all you have to do is see which one has a bigger numerator
42>36
the answer is 42/126 is greater
For 2,000 ten times is 20,000 and for 1/10 of is 200
You can use your calculator to divide it out and find that
or, you can make use of your knowledge of the decimal equivalent if 1/11 (=0.90909...) and multiply that by -8 to get -0.727272... as above.
I am a number greater than 40,000 and less than 60,000:
40,000 < n < 60,000
This means that:
n = 10,000n₁ + 1,000n₂ + 100n₃ + 11n₄
And also:
4 ≤ n₁ < 6
0 ≤ n₂ ≤ 9
0 ≤ n₃ ≤ 9
0 ≤ n₄ ≤ 9
My ten thousands digit is 1 less than 3 times the sum of my ones digit and tens digit:
n₁ = 3*2n₄ - 1
n₁ = 6n₄ - 1
This means that:
n = 10,000*(6n₄-1) + 1,000n₂ + 100n₃ + 11n₄
n = 60,000n₄ - 10,000 + 1,000n₂ + 100n₃ + 11n₄
n = 60,011n₄ - 10,000 + 1,000n₂ + 100n₃
<span>My thousands digit is half my hundreds digit, and the sum of those two digits is 9:
n</span>₂ = 1/2 * n₃
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n</span>₂ + n₃ = 9
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Therefore:
n</span>₂ = 9 - n₃
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Therefore:
9 - n</span>₃ = 1/2 * n₃
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9 = 1/2 * n</span>₃ + n₃
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9 = 1.5 * n</span>₃
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Therefore:
n</span>₃ = 6
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If n</span>₃=6, n₂=3.
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This means that:
</span>n = 60,011n₄ - 10,000 + 1,000*3 + 100*6
n = 60,011n₄ - 10,000 + 3,000 + 600
n = 60,011n₄ - 6,400
Therefore:
0<n₄<2, so n₄=1.
If n₄=1:
n = 60,011 - 6,400
n = 53,611
Answer:
53,611
